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11:40 AM ET, April 29, 2012

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CNN:
TRENDING: Boehner explains jabs at Obama as ‘help’  —  Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday described his amped-up rhetoric toward President Barack Obama in recent days as advice.  —  “The president is getting ... some bad advice,” Boehner said on CNN's “State of the Union.”
Discussion: Politico
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ABCNEWS:
President Obama on Palin: What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?  ‘A pit bull is delicious’ (VIDEO)  —  During his speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington on Saturday, President Obama used Sarah Palin's recent turn as a co-host on NBC's …
Michele Salcedo / Associated Press:
Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner.
Bill Clinton / CNN:
Bill Clinton to appear at fund-raiser with Obama on Sunday
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
TSA to My Mother-in-Law: 'There's an Anomaly in the Crotch Area'  —  Okay, I now have definitive proof that al Qaeda has actually won.  It hasn't achieved the dissolution of the United States, or succeeded in murdering millions of Americans, or re-established the Caliphate …
Discussion: Hot Air
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats plan another trap for Mitt Romney with female voters  —  Senate Democrats are planning a new ploy to put Mitt Romney and Republicans on the defensive with female voters.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will bring to the floor in coming weeks legislation …
New York Times:
The iEconomy: Apple's Tax Strategy Aims at Low-Tax States and Nations  —  RENO, Nev. — Apple, the world's most profitable technology company, doesn't design iPhones here.  It doesn't run AppleCare customer service from this city.  And it doesn't manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby.
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Is There Any Worthwhile Progressive Thing?  Yes  —  Since I spend no small amount of time beating down on Progressivism and all things Progressive here, more than a few folks have noted the irony that I'm currently having my house painted inside and out by . . . Progressive Painting!
Jon Boone / Guardian:
British doctor found beheaded in Pakistan  —  Body of Red Cross worker Khalil Dale found dumped by roadside in region afflicted by separatist and Taliban violence  —  The beheaded corpse of a British aid worker has been discovered in the Pakistani city of Quetta almost four months after he was kidnapped.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Steven Malanga / Wall Street Journal:
How Retirement Benefits May Sink the States  —  Illinois is a lesson in why companies are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of governments.  —  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently offered a stark assessment of the threat to his state's future that is posed …
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
My Faith-Based Retirement  —  My 60th birthday is less than a week and a half away, and if there is one thing I can say with certainty it's that 60 is not the new 50.  —  My body creaks and groans.  My eyes aren't what they used to be.  I don't sleep as soundly as I did just a few years ago.
David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Elizabeth Warren Herself Claimed “Minority” Status  —  A controversy has broken out in Massachusetts over the fact that Harvard Law School has claimed professor and current senatorial candidate Elizabeth as a minority member of the faculty based on apparent (but as yet unconfirmed) Native American ancestry.
KATU-TV:
City to pay man $250,000 after police mistake him as a tagger  —  Police left Dan Halsted badly bruised after they tackled and stunned him four years ago, thinking he was a tagger.  —  PORTLAND, Ore. - The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police …
Discussion: The Agitator and Hullabaloo
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cantor-allied Young Guns Network urges non-Republicans to vote in Lugar race  —  I reported the other day that the Young Guns Network, a group led by two former top aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, is spending $100,000 in the primary between Sen. Richard Lugar and state treasurer Richard Mourdock …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cantor-allied group slams Mourdock as ‘extreme’
 
 
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Damon W. Root / Hit & Run:
The New York Times Flip-Flops on Judicial Restraint
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FEC Disclosure Loophole Closes On Secret Donors As Court Won't Stay Ruling
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Romney Holds Big-Money Fundraiser at N.Y. Billionaire's Townhouse
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Cuisines from My Stepfather  —  A couple of days ago …
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